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| Mustapha Aissaoui Product Line Manager, IP Routing & Packet Core, IP/Optical Networks (ION) Nokia Mustapha Aissaoui is a Product Manager in the Service Router Product Group of the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia. He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. Mustapha Aissaoui is an active participant of the IETF PWE3, L2VPN, MPLS, PCE, and SPRING working groups. He is a co-author and a major contributor to many drafts in these working groups. | |
| Muhammad Asif Product Line Manager Nokia Muhammad Asif is a Senior Product Line Manager for Nuage Professional Services. Mr. Asif has an experience of more than fifteen years in software development and system architect design for web based network management systems. Mr. Asif holds a Ph.D. degree from Carleton University (Canada) in computer systems and networks. Mr. Asif is an author of numerous scientific research papers and book chapters. Mr. Asif is co-presenting a plenary session and an SD-WAN tutorial. | |
| Hooman Bidgoli Product Line Manager Nokia Hooman Bidgoli - 7705/7750 Product Line Manager - Hooman has over 16 years of experience in IP/MPLS protocols and networks. He is responsible for Multicast solutions and Security on SR-OS (7705/7750) including Firewall/Nat/IPSec and router security on 7705. | |
| Oz Bulbul Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Oz Bulbul is a Principal Consulting Engineer at Nokia, supporting Multi-Service Operators. He is responsible for the introduction, design and engineering of service delivery architectures including IP/MPLS, and SDN based overlay networks. Currently based in Blacksburg (VA), Oz has over 15 years of experience in the networking industry, and before joining to Nokia in 2011, he held different positions at Laurel Networks/ECI Telecom, focusing on IP/MPLS edge routers, and BRAS products. Oz has a degree in Computer Science from Middle East Technical University,(Ankara, Turkey). | |
| Flavio Caracas Sr. Director – IP and Optical Networking Division Nokia Flavio Caracas leads a team responsible for IP/MPLS, Optics and SDN/NFV Consulting Engineering and Business Development support for Vertical markets in North America within the ION Division. Previously he was the head of Product Line Management of the 7705 SAR IP/MPLS Routing Portfolio and the Multiservice WAN Switches product families, with responsibilities for product strategy, roadmap definition, future development, and portfolio life cycle. Prior to Nokia, Flavio joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2000 through the acquisition of Newbridge Networks, having held senior management positions in Business Management, Systems Engineering, Marketing and Sales. Flavio has a very broad experience in Information and Communications technologies encompassing IP/MPLS networking, satellite communications, and radio transmission. Flavio Caracas holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering. | |
| Robert Castellano Principle Consulting Engineer Nokia Robert Castellano is a Principle Consulting Engineer within Nokia's IP Routing & Optics Group. He has over 25 years in system architecture, hardware design, network design and systems engineering. His current area of interest is in network planning and design for macro and small-cell cellular backhaul networks. Prior to Nokia, Robert has held engineering and management roles at Alcatel-Lucent, C-COR, Paradyne Networks, AT&T, and Jedai Broadband Networks. During his career, Robert has had lead architecture and definition roles in data networking platforms for advanced digital video transport systems, multi-service packet transport, Metro-Ethernet, Optical, IP, ATM, DSL, Frame Relay, and T1 networking technologies. Robert has been actively involved in IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards development from 2001 - 2005, and was one of the editors for the IEEE 802.17 resilient packet ring standard. Robert has an MSEE in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University. | |
| Sunit Chauhan Senior Director, Product Management (Nuage Networks) Nokia Sunit Chauhan leads the Product Management team for the SDWAN product line at Nuage Networks from Nokia. His team defines the strategic direction and product roadmap for next-gen WAN services portfolio. | |
| Nabeel Cocker Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Nabeel is responsible for the introduction, design and engineering of L2 and L3 solutions for carriers in North America. Nabeel has 16 years of experience in the networking industry in both Carrier and Enterprise networks. Before joining Nokia in 2011, he worked at Verizon’s Next Generation Labs for 10 years. Nabeel holds a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Telecommunication Networks. He is a MU Fan. | |
| Filipe Correia Regional Product Line Manager (North America) Nokia Filipe Correia is a Regional Product Line Manager and Consulting Engineer in Nokia Networks’ ION Division, focused on network management portfolio and solutions including Software Defined Network (SDN) Controllers for enterprise and provider networks. Felipe is a regular speaker at Nokia Networks and industry conferences. Currently based in Plano (TX), Filipe has more than 15 years of experience in Nokia as well as over 9 years focused in the IP division working on Enterprise and Service Provider IP/MPLS networks including time based in Melbourne, Australia in the IP Division focused on Asian Pacific accounts and networks. | |
| Alp Dibirdi IP Product Manager Nokia Alp has over 18 years of experience in telecom industry. He joined Alcatel in mid 1998 and worked as a System Engineer, NW Architect, ATM Product Line Product Manager and now IP Product Manager. In his current role, he leads IP/MPLS, Ethernet, Services, OAM and Traffic Management features on 7705 Service Aggregation Router product family. He is recognized as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in 2010 for his sustained outstanding technical contribution to Alcatel-Lucent by Bell Labs. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| Scott Drennan Product Manager Nokia Scott Drennan is a Principal Product Manager at Nuage Networks from Nokia. He is involved in Software Defined Networking, Orchestration and OpenStack with a primary focus on exposing sophisticated and scalable network policy. He has been part of the Nuage team since the early days and is an avid Open Source proponent since Linux 0.99. When not in front of a monitor, he is somewhere on his bicycle. | |
| Steve Dyck Principal, Consulting Engineer Nokia Steve Dyck, P.Eng. Principal, Consulting Engineer, IP and Optical Networking at Nokia. Steve Dyck is a Principal Consulting Engineer specializing in WAN and Data Center networking including IP/MPLS, WDM and SDN technologies. Steve’s focus is on providing innovative solutions for vertical and enterprise markets including utilities, oil & gas, state and local governments, public safety, transportation, health care, financial services and cloud service providers. Steve has over 25 years experience in telecom and IT networking with roles ranging from R&D, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, Solutions Architect and Consulting Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada. | |
| Walid Elbokl Product Line Manager Nokia Walid is a product line manager in NOKIA’s service router team. In his current role, Walid owns decisions on definition, scheduling and lifecycle of NETCONF/Telemetry/EHS in Nokia’s 7x50 routers. He has over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is based in Ottawa/Canada. | |
| Footer Foote PLM / Consulting Engineer Nokia Footer has many more years experience in networking than he cares to divulge. To provide some context, he considered 4Mbps Token Ring connected SNA controller to Front End Processors some darn impressive technology. That was of course until he discovered the dipswitch that allowed for 16Mbps Token Ring, on the same card. What speed! What a technology! Everyone could move on, networking was now complete. What else was left. As time progressed and networking evolved, ventures into Ethernet switching, IP Routing protocols, and MPLS and the consumption of large steaks became the focus. The years flew by and about eight years ago, IP & Ethernet OAM fault and performance management became the cool kid on the block. Footer lept at the opportunity to get involved in something so cool. Looking back to the Token Ring days, it was apparent he had always had an attraction to OAM. It was always fun to see how fast one could find a beaconing Token Ring NIC connected to a non-intelligent MAU using a stethoscope. OAM certainly has progress beyond the stethoscope days. It remains the wickedly cool, complicated and multifaceted technology that everyone wants to be involved in. Footer is currently a Senior Product Manager with responsibility for IP & Ethernet OAM strategy and architecture. He regularly attends the IETF quarterly meetings and participates in the IPPM and LIME working groups. He joined Riverstone Networks in 1999, and through acquisition, merger, and acquisition, has 17 years as part of Nokia. Footer is based in Toronto, Canada and we believe he still have a Token Ring network in his house. | |
| Keith Galway Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Keith Galway is a principal consulting engineer and regional PLM for the 7x50 product line and is based in Ottawa, Canada. Since 2004 he has been working with customers in the Americas responsible for introduction and design of advanced IP solutions focused on wireline business and residential markets. He has over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry ranging from engineering, product management, and consulting engineering at Newbridge Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo. | |
| Brant Gifford Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Brant is a Principal Consulting Engineer in the North American Regional Business Center of Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks (ION) organization. He has been with Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) since 2013 most recently focusing on NfV and SDN (Nuage Networks) solutions for Mobile Network Operators and Multiple-System Operators. He has been in the data networking industry for more than 20 years, holding individual contributor and leadership roles in technical sales and support, network engineering, and operations organizations. | |
| Furqan Haq Consulting Engineer Nokia Furqan has extensive experience in delivering end-to-end solutions for clients using a consultative approach. His leadership style combines teams of designers, integrators, and test engineers focused on complex customer projects. In his current role as Consulting Engineer with Nokia’s IP Routing & Transport business unit, Furqan specializes in Core IP Routing, Business and Residential services (MPLS VPNs, BNG), Carrier Ethernet, NFV and SDN. Prior to this role, Furqan has worked on various IP and Fixed Access products, as R&D engineer, Mobile Backhaul Solution Support, and most recently in Network Architecture & Design. Furqan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). | |
| Danny Hernandez Rojas IP NPI Engineer Nokia IP/MPLS Expert with more than 10 years of experience in Routing and Switching and Service Provider Networks. Passionate for technology, soccer and football. | |
| Rudy Hoebeke Vice President, Product Management – IP Routing & Mobile Packet Core Nokia Rudy Hoebeke is Vice President of Product Management for Nokia’s IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core portfolio.He has over 15 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, in the areas of engineering, network design, technology & product strategy and product management. Formerly, Rudy was Vice President of Product Management for IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core in Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Vlerick Leuven-Gent Business School. Rudy is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Mike Hollyman Head of Consulting Engineering Nokia Coming soon! | |
| Jeff Jakab Product Line Manager Nokia An 18 year employee of Nokia, Jeff is presently hardware PLM with focus on technical marketing and strategic responsibilities within the 7750 SR, 7950 XRS, 7210 SAS and 7705 SAR product families. He presently works in the heart of Silicon Valley out of the Nokia office in Mountain View, California. | |
| Alastair AJ Johnson Principal Solution Architect Nokia Alastair Johnson (AJ) is a principal solution architect with Nuage Networks, based in Mountain View, California. AJ’s focus is working directly with customers to introduce, explain, and expand technology based on Nuage Networks portfolio of products – solving customer problems through new, innovative WAN services for Enterprises and Service Providers targeting the Enterprise market. | |
| Hari Krishnan Sr.Director Product Line Management Nokia Hari Krishnan is currently Sr. Director of Product Line Management for Security at Nokia’s Nuage Networks. Hari brings over 18 years of experience leading product management, strategy and marketing for network security, SDN, cloud, virtualization, IP networking and management software products for Enterprise and Service Provider markets. Prior to his current role at Nuage, Hari was Director of Product Management and Marketing for ACI Security at Cisco Insieme Business unit. Prior to Cisco, Hari held a variety of product leadership roles at VMware, F5 Networks and Nominum. Hari has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Masters in Computer Science from UCLA and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. | |
| Ken Kutzler Vice President and General Manager of Hardware Routing, IP/Optical Networks Business Group Nokia Joined Nokia through Alcatel-Lucent acquisition in 2016 V.P. Hardware Engineering and Hardware Product Management, Alcatel-Lucent 2003-2015 Co-founder of TiMetra 2000-2003 Director of Product Management at Synoptics Networks 1999-2000 CEO of Treseq Inc. 1997-1999 Product Line Manager at Bay Networks 1992-1997 Network Analyst at Ford Motor Company 1987-1991 Ken joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2003 through the acquisition of privately held TiMetra Networks, where he was co-founder. TiMetra was a venture-backed Silicon Valley start-up focused on service routers for IP/MPLS networks. Since the acquisition, Ken and his team have steadily grown Nokia’s IP strategy and hardware portfolio. The business has gained market share consistently for a decade, attaining the #2 position in service provider IP/MPLS routing and selling into 700+ customers including the world’s top 60 service providers. Ken is a recognized industry leader who enjoys being at the forefront of IP network evolution and portfolio development. He holds a Master’s Degree of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado. | |
| Craig Labovitz General Manager Nokia Craig Labovitz is Nokia General Manager for the Deepfield business line. Previously, Labovitz was Co-Founder and CEO of Deepfield. Labovitz has developed the core technology, key patents, architecture and commercial strategy behind more than $1 billion in sales of large enterprise and telecom security products. His technology is deployed in more than 700 Internet Service Providers, cable operators, content providers, and mission-critical networks around the globe. Dr. Labovitz is an expert on Internet infrastructure and cloud evolution. In the 1990s, his seminal Internet research developed the foundation for Arbor Networks technology and served as a catalyst for significant changes in commercial Internet routing software implementations throughout the world. His work was recently recognized with the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2008. In addition to his extensive commercial product and research background, Dr. Labovitz has over a decade of operational network engineering experience, including NSFNet backbone engineering, Sprint's first Internet email infrastructure, design of the Department of Defense research network, and the first commercial aviation Internet service. Dr. Labovitz is an active participant in the global network engineering community, including service on the program committee and as the Chair of North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). Labovitz is the author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed networking research papers, journal articles and patents. His is a frequent guest on national television and radio news programs and his research is widely cited in national media articles and academic publications. Dr. Labovitz received his PhD and MSE from the University of Michigan. | |
| Reda Laichi Consulting Engineer and Regional Product Manager Nokia Reda Laichi is a key member of the IP Routing and Transport Consulting Engineering team who is focusing on Nokia’s Network and Service Management product line. Reda also has a role as a regional Product Line Manager responsible for incorporating customer requirements into feature development of the Network and Service Management portfolio. Reda has over18 years experience in Alcatel-Lucent and has contributed to development of Alcatel-Lucent’s Network and Service Management products as well as numerous IP/MPLS network deployments and integrations for service providers and large enterprises customers worldwide. | |
| Karyn Lennon Senior Director, ION Learning Services Nokia Karyn Lennon leads the Learning Services function for Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks Business Group. In her role, Karyn is responsible for setting the strategic direction and development of Nokia’s Optical educational services which includes the Nokia Optical Networks Certification Program. In addition to the Optical program, Karyn directs both Nokia’s flagship IP/MPLS certification program, the Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program which has over 14,000 individuals participating globally and the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Prior to her role in Learning Services, Karyn held various PLM and Marketing positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Karyn received her Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa. | |
| Dmitri Litvine Principal Consultant Nokia Dmitri Litvine is a Principal Consultant for the IPRT, providing consulting support for solutions and architectures based on classic 7750/7705/7210 products as well as SDN solutions such as Nuage VSP and VNS. Dmitri has almost 18 years of experience in various facets of data networking including network design engineering, network transformations, solutions and architecture consulting in different technology areas such as IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Broadband, EPC/MPC, SP WiFi, SDN/NFV etc. The last 5 years Dmitri is focusing on architecture consulting helping customers to leverage and benefit innovative solutions. Dmitri holds active CCIE, NRS-I and VCP5-DCV certifications, he is based in Calgary, Canada. | |
| Jon Lundstrom Consulting Engineer Nokia Jon Lundstrom has held a variety of technologies and business development roles in the telecommunications industry over the past 16 years. Jon’s network designs and financial modeling for IOC, ILEC, cable, and CLEC service providers, paved the way for successful deployments of optical, carrier Ethernet infrastructure, and MEF services. Since joining Nokia, Jon has provided product management and business development leadership for the introduction of next generation network management systems to address operational challenges, scale, and automation requirements for the largest service providers in North America. Jon’s current role is business development and product management of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), he is currently working with service providers to realize the operational gains and capture new revenue with cloud-based solutions. Jon holds a B.Eng in Computer Engineering from Carleton University. | |
| Andrew Missing Director, Technical Marketing, ION NAM + LAT RBC Nokia Andrew heads Technical Marketing in IP/Optical Networks (ION) North America and Latin America (NAM+LAT) Regional Business Center (RBC). He has over 20 years of experience in the field of telecommunications and has worked in the United States for more than fifteen years. Andrew previously worked for Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel and prior to that Newbridge Networks. There he held several positions in business development, network design and engineering and consulting. He started his telecommunications career with Siemens AG’s public switching division in Munich, Germany. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Aston University in England. Andrew is based in Northern Virginia. | |
| Houman Modarres Head of Marketing, ION Nokia Houman Modarres leads the marketing efforts of Nuage Networks, Nokia's venture committed to removing the networking constraints and boundaries that hinder cloud services. Houman joined Alcatel-Lucent’s rapidly growing IP Division in 2008 as Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, prior to which he led the marketing and product management functions within Hammerhead Systems, a Silicon Valley start-up. In other past lives on the leading edge of shifts in networking technology, Houman oversaw the Carrier VoIP/Softswitch business line at 3Com Corporation, served in Product Management roles at Newbridge Networks, and held broadband & wireless systems engineering and network planning positions at Nortel. Houman holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. | |
| Steve Morin Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and DEM Nokia Steve Morin is Director of Product Management for Application Assurance and Dynamic Experience Management in the Nokia IP/Optical Networks (ION) business group. He has over 25 years of experience in the networking and data communications industry, within the areas of engineering, technology & product strategy and product management. In his current role, Steve has responsibility for the network and service architecture for internet application management in Nokia ION products and solutions. Steve holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. | |
| Rob Nath Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Rob is currently a Principal Consulting Engineer for Nokia’s IP Routing Group. Rob came to Nokia via the acquisition of an IP/MPLS router startup called Riverstone Networks. He comes from 22+ years of IP Routing and Switching experience, mostly in the Internet Provider and the Service Provider spaces. He has assisted with some standards work on drafts within the IETF over the years, with some eventually reaching RFC status. He currently focuses on technology aspects in IP Routing and LTE Evolved Packet Core. Rob was born and raised in the SF Bay Area (East Bay) and grew up holding a number of positions in what’s now known as the Silicon Valley thru college and into his long term career. Rob holds a BS from San Jose State University. | |
| Sasa Nijemcevic Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit Nokia Drawing on over 19 years of experience in the network management domain, Sasa Nijemcevic is currently the Vice President and General Manager, Network and Service Management Business Unit at Nokia. Previously, Sasa has led R&D teams for IP/MPLS network management, wireless network management, and fixed/wireless policy management. He was instrumental in driving the success of Alcatel-Lucent's unified network management platform across the IP, Optical, microwave and wireless product portfolios. Sasa has a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Computer Science from the University of Zagreb. | |
| Alfred Nothaft Sr. Director, SR Product Management Nokia Alfred is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Service Router product group, focusing on IP routing, MPLS and Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services. Alfred has been involved the with 7x50 product lines since 2000, when he originally joined TiMetra Networks. Prior to that, Alfred was the Director of Network Architecture at BroadbandNow! and before that he held various management and engineering positions at Bay Networks and NASA. | |
| Hamid Ould-Brahim Product Manager Nokia Hamid Ould-Brahim is Product Manager in the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia focusing on Carrier Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies developed under the Network Services Platform (NSP). Hamid has over 25 years of industry experience in telecommunications. He architected and pioneered a number of Internet related technologies and was a member of the first IETF industry design team that architected the concept of Provider-based VPNs. Hamid holds over 100 patents that cover a wide spectrum of technologies such as BGP, MPLS, GMPLS, Layer 3 VPNS, Ethernet Virtual Private LAN, IEEE 8021ah, Optical VPNs, and traffic engineering. He edited and co-authored a number of IETF RFC standards and contributions in both IETF, OIF, MEF and ITU-T. Hamid played a leadership role in the development of IP-based layer-1 VPNs and co-chaired successfully a routing area Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Working Group. Hamid was dubbed previously by Nortel, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and was a key technical driver for the unprecedented sale of Nortel patents for $4.5B to a consortium of top industry companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Hamid has been a presenter at a number of IP related conferences and a member of technical selection committee of IP and Optical international conference. | |
| Avinash Pai Software Product Manager Nokia Avinash is 7210 Software Product Manager and is part of the IPD product management team. In the current role he is responsible for the 7210 software features. He has been with the 7210 team right from its inception. Previous to it, he has been associated with networking in various roles in engineering for about 10 years. He is based in Bangalore, India. | |
| Chip Pratt Nokia | |
| Jorge Rabadan Senior Product Line Manager Nokia Jorge Rabadan is a Senior Product Line Manager at Nokia’s ION Business Unit, responsible for the development of Layer-2, EVPN and Data Center Gateway technologies in the 7x50 product family. Jorge is an active member in the IETF community, contributing and co-authoring several drafts in the BESS working group, and he is a regular speaker at Nokia and industry conferences. Currently based in Mountain View (CA), Jorge has more than 18 years of experience working on Enterprise and Service Provider IP/MPLS networks around the globe. He has been part of the former Alcatel-Lucent's IP Division for the last 10 years and prior to that, Jorge held different positions at Riverstone Networks and Nortel Networks. Jorge has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valladolid (EUP, Spain). | |
| Carl Rajsic Product Manager Nokia Carl Rajsic is a Product Manager in Nokia’s SAR and SR product groups within the IP/Optical Networks Division. Carl has over 20 years of engineering and product management experience in the area of networking and data communications systems and solutions. In his current role, Carl has responsibility for strategy, roadmap, and feature definition associated with Nokia’s new wireless LTE/WLAN capable 7705 SAR-Hm router, providing wireless connectivity solutions to vertical industry network operators. He joined Nokia through the 2015 acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent where he held product management, development and software design management roles. Carl holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. | |
| Mike Reeves ION Professional Services Product Manager Nokia I am responsible for developing customer focused professional service solutions for the ION IP Routing portfolio including backhaul, packet core and VSR appliances. | |
| Gabriel Reindl Technical Sales EPC Nokia Gabriel Reindl is a Solution Sales Manager for Nokia’s Evolved Mobile Packet Core in IP/Optical Networks (ION) North America Regional Business Center (RBC). He has over 20 years of experience in the communication industry in the areas of engineering, project management, technical sales support and consultancy of packet core networks. Prior to the current role Gabriel held different positions with Nokia in Europe, US as well as a global support position. He holds a Master of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. | |
| Kevin Reinert Dir. Sales & Business Dev Nokia account team Intel Coming Soon! | |
| Juan Rodriguez Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Juan is a Principal Consulting Engineer supporting Multi-System Operators (MSOs) in Nokia’s IP & Optics Networks (ION). Juan’s focus is on next generation business and residential architectures, Wi-Fi, and NFV/SDN. Juan has been with Nokia since 2008 in various technical positions throughout Latin America and North America and is currently based in Orlando, Florida. Juan holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from PUCMM in the Dominican Republic. | |
| Saurabh Sandhir VP, Product Management, Nuage Networks Nokia Saurabh Sandhir leads the Product Management team at Nuage Networks. Saurabh brings over 16 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering, product management and marketing teams focused on networking software products. Most recently, Saurabh was Head of Technology Strategy, CTO office at Ericsson. Prior to his role at Ericsson, Saurabh held a variety of leadership roles during his 13 year tenure at Juniper Networks. He was the head of the NFV platform product line for both engineering and product management functions. Saurabh also headed the Network Programmability (Junos SDK) product line at Juniper and the development of the industry’s first network API toolkit for developers. This group was also instrumental in defining the marketing blueprint for the introduction of software products in a thus so far hardware centric industry. Saurabh played key roles in building Juniper’s SDN partner and channel programs and defining the SDN architecture/strategy leading to the acquisition of Contrail Systems. Saurabh has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley. | |
| Leonardo Serodio Nokia | |
| Adam Simpson Product Manager, ION IP Routing Nokia Adam is a senior product manager with Alcatel-Lucent. He is based in Ottawa, Canada. Adam is responsible for IP routing strategy and architecture with a focus on BGP and L3 VPNs. Adam has also taken a lead role in the planning and development of Alcatel-Lucent's VSR product line, which represents an extension of 7x50 router technology into the domain of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). | |
| Jan Straznicky Principal Consulting Engineer Nokia Currently, Jan is a Principal Consulting Engineer in Nokia’s IP Routing & Transport business unit. In this role he develops product technical requirements and works with customer teams on specific opportunities. Jan’s areas of focus are in Mobile Backhaul, WiFi, Evolved Packet Core, and NFV/SDN. Prior to this role, Jan has held positions in Technical Marketing, Customer Applications Engineering, and most recently in Mobile Backhaul Solution Architecture. Jan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and an Executive MBA from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). | |
| Jeffery Sugimoto Senior director of Consulting Engineering for the North American IP and Optical (ION) Nokia He leads business development and technical sales of the ION IP portfolio for North American service provider, webscale and large enterprise customers. With over 20 years of industry experience, Jeff has been instrumental in developing the products, technologies and architectures used in many of the regions largest IP networks. His previous experience includes roles in product management, consulting engineering and new technology development/standardization in the office of the CTO. Most recently, his focus also includes leading the service provider business development team for Nokia’s cloud and NFV solutions, including Nuage Networks. Jeff holds a bachelors degree in computer science from the University of Western Ontario, and is based in Vancouver Canada. | |
| Rohit Tumkur Pranesha Product Manager, NSP Platform Nokia A virtualization enthusiast with 10 years+ experience in Network Assurance, IP/MPLS/EPC & cloud technologies. | |
| Jeff Valley Senior Director, IP Consulting Engineering Nokia Jeffrey Valley, M.S., CISSP, is Senior Director of IP Consulting Engineering for Cable Multi-System Operators (MSOs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks business group. Jeffrey’s areas of interest include evolving architectures for residential and business IP services, mobile backhaul, mobile packet core, Carrier WIFI, IP core routing, network security, and NFV/SDN. | |
| Jan Vandenhoudt Principal Consulting Engineer, IP Routing & Mobile Packet Core Nokia Jan Vandenhoudt is a Principal Consulting Engineer for Nokia’s IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core portfolio. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, in the areas of engineering, network design, product management and networking consultancy. Prior experience include working as an IMS Product Manager and as a Consulting engineer for IP service networking both in Europe and in North America. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven (KULeuven) and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS). Jan is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| Hans Vanderstraeten Virtual Networks Orchestration team lead Nokia Hans Vanderstraeten is the founder and leader of the Virtual Networks Orchestration team within the IP division of Nokia, working on automation of the design, validation, and deployment of end-to-end connectivity across Clouds. Prior to this assignment, Hans has been with the Sales Organization for 10 years, leading Technical Sales teams across the EMEA region. The last 3 years years of his sales chapter, Hans has created and led the Global Cloud Practice in Customer Operations. | |
| Steve Vogelsang Vice President Strategy & CTO, IP/Optical Networks Business Group Nokia Coming Soon! | |
| Sanjay Wadhwa Sr. Director, Product Management, ION Nokia Sanjay has over 15 years of experience in data communications and IP networking industry. He joined Alcaltel-Lucent in 2010, prior to which he held executive roles in Engineering and Product Management at Fore Systems, Unisphere Networks, and Juniper Networks. At Nokia (via Alcatel-Lucent acquisition), he leads product management activities focused on residential broadband, carrier WIFI, home virtualization and NFV. He has a Masters in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky, and has completed an executive program in management from MIT, Sloan school of management. He is based in Mountain View, California. | |
| Andrew Weingart ION Consulting Engineer, TEPS Nokia Currently with a focus on transportation, State & Local government, I’ve spent the past 15 years working in MSOs and utilities focusing on the IP/MPLS and DWDM networks and recently have included working in SDN technologies | |
| Greg White Consulting Engineer Nokia Greg White, Consulting Engineer, Network Management Solutions within Nokia. Greg White is a Consulting Engineer in the IP and Optical Networking business unit focused on Network Management solutions for Strategic Industries customers in North America. Prior to serving Strategic Industries customers, Greg provided Consulting Engineering and Business Development services to MSO and wireless customers for Alcatel-Lucent in the US and Canada. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent Greg served customers in telecommunications, enterprise, government, education, medical, channel partners and resellers through various sales and technical positions. He has a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers University and currently resides in Nashville Tennessee. | |
| Sven Wisotzky Senior Network Consulant, IP/Routing Regional Business Center, EMEA Nokia Sven Wisotzky is Senior Network Consultant working in the Nokia ION Regional Business Center for EMEA. He has over 20 years of experience in the communications and networking industry. He started his career in the area of engineering and product design for high-available real-time solutions in Alcatel SEL. In 2004 he has joined the Alcatel IP Division, working in the areas of product support, training, integration, technical sales, network and solution design and consultancy. He has a strong background on network management, OSS/BSS integration, performance monitoring and OAM. He holds the academic title of Diplom-Ingenieur (BA) in the field of Technical Computer Science from the Berufsakademie Berlin. This degree is equivalent to a Master’s degree. Sven is based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. | |
| Rob Wright Principle Consultant Nokia Rob Wright is a Principle Consultant within the IP and Optical Networking division with special focus on industries segments. He has over 20 years of data network design experience on customer networks consisting of a few IP nodes up to hundreds of nodes. His roles have included initial design consulting, identifying feature requirements, configuration development, and implementation of final solutions. | |
| Wael Zayed NPI Engineer Nokia | |
